Aesthetics and Theurgy in Byzantium

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In comparison with the wave of research dedicated to the aesthetics of the Latin Middle Ages, Byzantine aesthetics must be considered a relatively new and still largely unexplored subject. The contributions assembled in the present volume document the growing research interest in this field and present a wide variety of issues and methodologies that will be of interest to students and scholars of the philosophy, art, and literature of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period. Introduction: Byzantine Aesthetics Theurgy and Aesthetics in Dionysios the Areopagite Nikephoros Chumnos’ Treatise On Matter Proklos and Plethon on Beauty Toward a self-determined and emotional gaze: Agathias and the icon of the Archangel Michael Book and Image in Byzantine Christianity: Polemics or Communication? Transcendent Exemplarism and Immanent Realism in the Philosophical Work of John of Damaskos ‘Fire Walk With Me’: an attempt at an interpretation of Theurgy and its Aesthetics Contribution of Church Slavonic Translations to Understanding of Byzantine Anti-Iconoclast Polemics (The Case of the Letter of the Three Patriarchs to Theophilos) Historical Memory of Byzantine Iconoclasm in the 14th c.: the Case of Nikephoros Gregoras and Philotheos Kokkinos Index